Count Zeppelin – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Count Zeppelin, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The caption names the subject as Count Zeppelin, the German aeronaut whose name became shorthand for the rigid airship. Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a former cavalry officer, had observed balloon reconnaissance during the American Civil War in 1863, and he later built his first large rigid airship, which flew in 1900. The Bain News Service, which made this glass negative, was a commercial picture agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, so the image was probably made for press use. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact occasion remains uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,184 × 5,860 px · prints to 14 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-5119 |
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